I am an Assistant Professor of Population Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru UNiversity, Delhi. Prior to this, I served as an assistant professor in Institute of economic Growth, Delhi. I did my Masters in Statistic; MPhil & PhD in International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. I have been teaching various quantitative and advanced demopgraphic methods to the doctoral students; I am also guiding a number of doctoral and Mphil students. I have been a visiting scholar in Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany since 2008. My focus of research is mortality and health issues in South Asian countries, particularly in India. Besides, I am interested on disability studies; gender role on health; role of migration in health.

Member of IUSSP Scientific panel on “Lifespan Extension with Varying Cause-of-death Trajectories”, 2015-2018.

Junior Demographer Travel Grant awarded by IUSSP to attend the International Seminar on “Promoting Postpartum and Post-abortion Family Planning: Challenges and Opportunities”, Cochin, India in 11-13 November 2014.

Awarded Prof P N Mari Bhat prize for the best PhD thesis during 2011-2014 by International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.

Awarded Population Association of America’s young scientist travel grant to attend PAA Conference held in 1-3 May 2014, Boston, USA.

Awarded Raja Rao Memorial award from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2014, for best research done in the area of Survey methodology, Econometrics, Demography and Other related fields in the form of published articles or PhD thesis.

2011, Prof K B Pathak Award from Indian Association of Study of Population (IASP), for the article “Trends and geographic Differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” (published in Population Studies) for methodological innovation in the field of Population and Health.
Junior Demographer Travel Grant awarded by IUSSP to attend the International Seminar “Emergence of Social Differences in Mortality Time Trends Causes and Reactions”, Alghero, Italy in 29-30 May, 2008.

Government of India and UGC Fellowship for pursuing PhD Course in International Institute for population Sciences from 9 May, 2007 to 9 December, 2010.

Silver Medal Winner in Master in Population Studies, 2005-2006, IIPS, Mumbai.
Government of India Fellowship for pursuing MPS/M Phil Course in International Institute for population Sciences from 11 July, 2005 to 31 December, 2006.